Morning thoughts of George Orwell

A few thoughts from George Orwell...

“Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”

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“So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don’t even know that fire is hot.”

“Liberal: a power worshipper without power.”

“Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.”

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“To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.”